Politics and Current Events, Sports (Boston teams - Your World Champion Red Sox and Patriots), Writing (theatrical & comedy), Bar Sports (Pool, Darts, Trivia, Making an ass of yourself), Saying out loud what other people are thinking, Pacing a lot, Overusing ellipses...
Can you name track seven on the Born to Run album and all five members of the Traveling Wilburys without looking them up? Is "eclectic" one of your five favorite adjectives? Do you like going for ice cream when it's ten degrees below zero? Are you easily frustrated by cell phones and genuinely amazed when you can find your car in a crowded parking lot in under ten minutes? If yes to these, then good.
Mostly Classic Rock, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, U2, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, etc., lots of Motown (Smokey, Temptations, Ronettes, etc.), The Drifters, Wallflowers, older Counting Crows, Chili Peppers, and some surprises (Diana Krall, Dixie Chicks), really into Aimee Mann at the moment
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Field of Dreams, Braveheart, The Godfather (Parts I and II), Rocky (all five of 'em), the Die Hard trilogy, When Harry Met Sally, Good Will Hunting, Swingers, Rounders, the View Askew movies, Ocean's Eleven, City Hall, School of Rock, High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank, Almost Famous, Outside Providence, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, Eddie and the Cruisers, She's the One, Beautiful Girls, Remember the Titans, PCU, Ghostbusters, Coming to America, 25th Hour, Office Space, LA Confidential, The Warriors, Garden State, Sideways
Meet the Press w/ Tim Russert, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, The West Wing, Scrubs, Arrested Development, The Office, Last Comic Standing, both Real World and the Real World-Road Rules Challenges (but not Road Rules, go figure), lots of Comedy Central (South Park, Daily Show, Tough Crowd, Spoon Luv from up above), lots of HBO (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Ali G Show, Entourage, Real Time w/ Bill Maher), and I'm a Saved by the Bell guru
Second Treatise of Government, The Federalist Papers, Night, Murder on the Orient Express, The Handmaid's Tale, Locked in the Cabinet, A Civil Action, Fast Food Nation, SeinLanguage, and all the Encyclopedia Brown books - Also, favorite plays include 12 Angry Men, Glengarry Glen Ross, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Six Degrees of Separation, Hospitality Suite, and Love Letters
My first paper in grad school was on the impact had on my sociopolitical beliefs by the writings of John Locke and Bruce Springsteen. Wrap your brain around that one.